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Topic: scrap from an old computer (Read 4645 times)

i am just starting this as a hobby and have recently taken my old computer apart. so i guess all i want to know at this point is what could be salvaged.also im sort of technology impaired...at least to the point where i can only use or disassemble it. ive only read about keyboard and mouse parts so if anyone could give me info on this it would be much appreciated.

ive looked at everything ive taken apart and have found resistors, capacitators, some regulators and a few leds...and wire, lots of wire but nothing is unsoldering from the board what else could i do to it?

you can possibly find:dc motors out of cdrom/dvd/floppy disk drivesas well as 4 pin stepper motors that can be used with a microcontrolllernylon gears of various sizesmetal rodsLEDs which can be used for half duplex communications or for showrare earth magnets from the hard driveseasily workable metal from the drive enclosures, tin snips ftw!various connectors that can be desoldered for later useheat sinks, great when your pushing something hard the plastic pieces can be cut and used for various applications with a little imagination and sometimes heat lolthe power supply for a benchtop power supply, check instructables.com for howtos (you can also just use a AC to DC wall wart)fans for cooling or whatever

basically everything can be highly effective for reuse but the motherboard, cpu and addon cards and im sure theres exceptions to even that.